THE SOUND OF BELGIUM = A MUSIC DOCUMENTARY BY JOZEF DEVILLE 'The Sound of Belgium' explores the rich but untold story of Belgian dance music. From the grand dance halls with Decap organs to the golden days of Popcorn; From dark and cold Electronic Body Music and New Beat to Belgian House and Techno. An alternative chronicle of unique popular music, 'The Sound of Belgium' goes in search of the spirit of a nation and the people that danced to it. THE SOUND OF BELGIUM - THE COMPILATION = A sonic journey through 4 decades of wonderful and weird music that marked the spirits and minds of the 72hours partypeople tribe we call "The Belgians". A soundtrack compiled of atmospheres and emotions that sum up the soul and the essence of a country and a golden era in sound. Showcasing modern dancemusic's roots in Belgian danceculture with a crossection of eclectic, innovating or just plain hard hitting dancetracks. This IS the Sound Of Belgium...

Welcome to the fourth chapter of the ELASTE series! In this compilation I am progressing a style I am inaugurating: Vintage Futurism. The best metaphor for this genre is Charanjit Singh's 1982 album Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat in which he created a sound which mirrors, but more importantly pre-dates, the first acid house record by five years. It is no novelty record, but truly capturing the hypnotic potential of acid/house music. It became my key track for Elaste Volume 4. Previous incarnations of Elaste have aimed to catch the spirit of the late 70s Italian Cosmic Discotheque, a place where the history of DJing was rewritten within this microcosm. For this latest instalment I was most intrigued by weird of-the-time (or out-of as the case turned out to be) electronic disco, a vast genre! Bringing together those progressive avant-garde tracks that were expanding the genres of house, disco, acid, new wave; and ultimately use Elaste as a vehicle to highlight those tracks that were ahead of their time. These legendary works ranges from 1978 to 1996, a wide spectrum of musical history, in which some of the older tracks may sound modern, and newer ones sound may sound vintage.Many of these authentic back-to-the-aural-future moments were initial sparks for whole genres - Larry Heard s Disco-D alias happened just before house music. Greg Wilsons 1984 project Equip was produced for a UK Electro compilation, but never made the LP, because it sounded simply too futuristic. Michael Rinder s Gluttony cant be called Disco any more, not even Post-Disco. For Elaste Vol. 4 we have built Vintage Futurism as a home for these ultramodern mavericks. Dompteur Mooner About Dompteur Mooner: Mooner stepped into the limelight as part of Zombie Nation, whose 1999 smash hit 'Kernkraft 400' was signed to DJ Hell's Gigolo label and earned worldwide chart success. As one of the most knowledgeable experts in obscure vintage electronic music, Mooner however decided to do things a little less obvious from that point on: He left Zombie Nation and founded Erkrankung durch Musique, a label dedicated to releasing left-field electronica, from techno to experimental pop, old and new. He also a highly regarded DJ, known for his unmatched record collection and bootleg edits, such as his Girls Girls Girls Ep that combined great 80s girl bands as extented edits, or Greatest Hits, an hommage to dance orientaed Rock music. Mooner just finished his fourth chapter of Elaste, a compilation series for Compost Records that started the Cosmic Disco hype.